Molly Brown House Museum In Denver, CO

The Molly Brown House Museum offers histories of Denver (+ Colorado), the unsinkable” Titanic, and an inspirational local and national political leader. We encourage you to visit the Museum to lend your support, see the restoration work first-hand, and learn about Denver's own Unsinkable Margaret Brown. Victorian Gardens at the Molly Brown House. Margaret Tobin Brown was born into a hard-working blue collar family with 6 children.

The Browns's wealth came from the gold and silver mines of Leadville, Colorado. Luckily, we arrived and were able to purchase tickets just before a scheduled tour began; we didn't have to wait very long and were able to enjoy the outside of Ms. Margaret Brown's home for about five minutes.

Rooms are decorated just as they were when Brown lived there and the tour also highlights how Brown earned her nickname as a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912. If you're on a trip to Denver, Colorado and still looking for some historical places to visit; Molly Brown House should not be missed or taken off your list.

Broadway, then later Hollywood, paid tribute to the Denver socialist with musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," which MGM made into a movie in 1964. She married mining engineer J.J. Brown, who developed a method of shoring up mine walls so that mines could be dug deeper, which led to the 1893 discovery of gold in the Little Johnny Mine.

Margaret Brown was a woman who became best known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown”, after she was one of the most high-profile survivors of the Titanic disaster. Margaret and the family traveled a lot of the time, and so the house was rented out. Visitors may know Margaret Molly” Brown in association with the RMS Titanic, but there was much more to her life than the ill-fated voyage for which she became famous.

Interestingly, Molly Brown House is one of the most favorite haunted spots in Colorado to visit during Halloween when people are looking for Victorian horror stories and some paranormal Vacation activities. And among other bizarre fictions, Fowler even has Maggie passing the time on board the Titanic by throwing grapefruits overboard and shooting them as they fell.

The museum highlights Brown's dedication to social activism. Born to Irish immigrants in 1867, Margaret (Maggie) Tobin lived her early years in Missouri and attended school until the age of 13. It was then that she was subjected to working in a factory, where she endured long days and low wages.